Cotton-harvester.



No. 817,667. PATENTED APR. 10, 1906' T. H. PRICE & W. P. QUENTELL. COTTON HARVESTBR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.13, 1905. V

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' v 514M214 od- No. 817,667. PATENTED APR. 10, 1906.

T. H. P111056; P. QUENTELL.

COTTON HARVBSTER. APPLICATION FILED mmla, 1905.

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I Q Q 5 W rfli M UNiZiTED rrrns N. Y.. A COR 1'0 (11/ 10/00/11 it mm ator. the disadvant the varying c tion of plant, r eration. which hav ed out as not to r when eiiort has b to render the indiv separately RE H. PRICE ASSIGNORS TO U Manhattan, in the seful improvement which the following iS a specinsiderable extent. anisnis have been of two he machine in growin the hand-operated pic The machines of th AND W lLLIAM P. TlLlTY COTTON PICKER LOh PORATION OF NEXV YORK.

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GQTTON=HARVE$TEFL Specification of Letters Satente Application filed January 13, 1905. Serial No. 2%.890:

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t we, Tr-rsonons H. Peron ILLIAM P. Qt'erz'rritc, c

itizens of the merica, residing in the city, county, k, have invented cerin Cotton-- n, cotton is still almost en-' hand, the various inechan purpose having failed of In the,

ounted usually on opelled through the field g instruments intended I or projected from time g cotton, and, second, ker carried 0 y the opere first class have age of lacking adaptation to ondltions of cotton and p0s1 esultin g in imperfections of 0pe been so frequently point equire repetition here, and een made in such machines idual picking instruments controllable the result has been great cuinbersomeness of vehicle and coinpiexrty of mechanism without SLll'llClGIlt compensating gain of scopeof action for On the other-hand, and operated picker, Whil blem or individual selec cotton, has lacked pow ing members. 1 carried the pro We have had ton-harvesting the pickthe hand e solving tion of the or and speed. i

in view the devising'of a cot- V machine which will have the' power and speed of the first class of machines above referred to and the capacity for individual selection of the cotton b the second class, and

ose ve have desi ned which the" pickera movable ve mounted also ton, Whil sel'v elonging to out thispur in carrying a form ot'haiw'ester 1nd'riving power is carried by.- hicle on which 'is preferably a receiver for the pibked cot; e the picking instruments them es, While receiving.- their picking motion from the sa'idmechanical power,-are carried individually by operators distributed in the 'iield adjacent to the maclune ans thereforefas interrne acting,

diary supports npon the terior cons r n in l/ids N13: YORK, N. Y.,

NY, OF NEW YORK,

ground for the powertransmitting devices located between the sour vehicle and the ham pickin g instrument.

cc of power on the lcarried and directed We have ioinnl that the bestresnlts are obtained with cot which are adapted to by the o pickin away from the pickin invention We combin picking implement a suitaing a source of power connected to it a'plur ing members leading mg iinpleinei'its. tron shown here ton pi perator, are capable o g members applied individual cotton-bolls, a driven both as to their the member which conv gnieinber to the storage receptacle, and in carryin cking implements ompletely directed i having their successively to the nd are mechanically picking member and ys the picked cotton bee g out our present c with such a cottonble vehicle conveywhich has operatively ali'ty of power-cor- *ey- 7 to the individual pick in the form of our in.ven-, in these power conveying members are so ioorted intermediate of the picking implement an person of the operator Our invention will stood by reference to a part of this specification, in

Figure 1 is a schema.

tire system. hicle carry is a side el Withthe casingtil-notion.- of a modifier necting the two parts conveying means at t Figs. 5 and 6 Referring now rm and '2 of said dra angular, framework of Work 10 being provid extending for.

journaled ,the vehicie-ivheel framework also suppo tioned body portion 1 1 42, the

forward comp 2 is plan View of the veng the source of power, and F 1g. 3 ovation of a co are detaii j modified forms of pow lied members 11,1'11- which are d the vehicle upon the 75 1 be more readily underthe drawings forming Which tic elevation of the en'- tton-picking means Wall removed to show the in- 4 is a detail, view l form of the mechanism for conof the flexible poweric operators belt. views illustrating nvevin means.

u U I er-co ire sneciiicaliy to Figs. 1 Wings, i0 H i nates the trino c, said frameed vnth doWnwardlythe ve s The said rts' a centrallyposi- 3,' partitioned by Wall rtnicnt 15 thus partied to carry the source is of any suitable type,

7 h arbon-engine 16. ..he rearcorng 121 it 15 mr be nsedies e comnionreceiver for the cotton which-is picked roe by the operators. The engine 16 is provided with a driving-pulley 17, over which a belt 18 travels, and said. belt 18 drives a wheel 19, which is suitably secured to the shaft 20, ournaled in the brackets 21, said shaft 20 .be-

mg provided at suitable intervals with bevel gear-wheels 23, which are in mesh with corresponding bevel gear-wheels 24, suitably journaled in the forward member of the vehicleframe. It will thus be seen that as the engine 16 is 0 erated the shaft 20 is rotated, and thus rotation is impartedto the bevel eer: wheels 23 and 24, the bevel gearwlieels 24 having suitably connected-to their axles means for conveying power to the picking membersfor example, as shown in .lfigspl and 2 the flexible shafts 25. The, other ends of said flexible shafts 25 may, as shown in Fig. 1, be connected. by suitable detachable coupling to a short flexible shafting 30, one end bf which has bearing in brackets'ZS 29, fastened to a belt 27 to be worn by an operator, or the members 25 may be parts of a continuous shaft, having bearing in the brackets 28 29, in which event the apparatus would preferably be attached to and detached from the operator by placing or re moving the belt, or, as shown in Fig. i, the shaft 25 ma T terminate in a bevel-gear 25, meshing wit an idle bevel ear 26, jonrnaled on a stud on the belt 27 an meshing in turn with a bevel-gear 30 on the end of shaft 30. Some such detachment of the two-shafts or shaft portions 25 30 is preferred, as it enables the using of a lighter and more flexible. shaft for the portion 30, as indicated in Fig. 4-, asis desirable for obvious reasons.

A suitable form of hand-directed cott on-' has its outer end journaled in a bracket 31 on the cotton-picker and is provided with a bevel ear-wheel 32. Said gear-wheel 32 is in mes with a bevel gear-wheel 33, whichis secured on the shaft 34 of a driving-pulley 35. The driving-pulley 35 is positioned in the rear portion of the casing or frame 36 of the cotton-picker and drives a conveying-belt 37, which has its forward end supported upon a pulley 38, which is suitably secured onashaft 39, suitably journaled in the framework of the cotton-picker. The shaft 39 also carries a gear-wheel 40, the teeth of which mesh with an idle pinion 41, said idle pinion 41 driving a gear-Wheel lZ, suitably secured on the shaft 43 of a cotton-picking member-44.

, The cotton-picking member 44 comprises a cylinder 45, through which are projected and into which are retracted the picking-fingers 46. The projection and retraction of these fingers may be accomplished in any preferred way, one such way bein described in our Patent N0. 796, 24.5, dated August 1, 1905.

At the rear end of the casing we support a cotton-rece tacle 47 ,into which the cotton is delivered t 'ough the opening 48 in the rear end of the casing and from. which the operator may from time to time remove it to the receptacle 15 on the vehicle.

In the operation of our machine the vehi'cle is propelled or moved in any suitable manner. The engine beingstarted,theflexible shafts 25 impart motion to the. several individual cotton-pickers through the mechanism described. The operators walk along the rows of cotton and present the picking and of the picker to the cotton. Thereupon the cotton-picking member picks the cotton suppert for the power-conveying mechanism between. the motive power and the picking instrumentproper is important when, as in this tnwention, the picker is, sup cited and directed by the operator hirnsc f, enabling him to-mani-pulate the picker independently without bein disturbed by having to give attentionto tne mainpowcr-conveymg shaft, steadying the actionv and enabling "the'use of different characters of transmitting mechanisms for the two parts-as, for example, a relatively more flexible shaft for the part 30 than for-part 25.

There may be substituted for-the flexible pcWer-conveyin shafts the hollow steel rod 25*, Fig. 5, con ed at the belt27 to the flexible shaft 30 an having sliding bearing at its other end in thepinion 24, carriedin the vehicle-frame and driven from the motor, as

are the pinions 24:.i11gth9 formvof construction shown in Figs. 1 and. 2. The rod 25 and its bearing'inpinion- 24- enga e in any preferred way to insure the turnin 0 therod by the pinion, while permitting 0 relative axial movementas, for example, by making both rod and bearing square. The bearing is also preferably slightly flared outwardly ateach end to allow some lateral playto the rodwithout binding in the bearing, or, as shown in Fig. 6, a telescopic rod 25 may housed in place of the rod 25, the severalmembers be ing guided on each other, as by being made square in cross-section, in somemanner to 'insurecorotation while permitting such relative longitudinal movement as is required to permit the operator tovary his distance from the vehicle, while the necessary lateral play en 2- to the shaft 30 andpinion Zabygimbal or similarjoints 26*.

Having thus described our invention,the following is what We claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1.-A cotton-harvester comprising a mechanical icking instrument having a conveying-be t, a flexible driving-shaft connected with the conveying-belt, a shaft-bearin for supporting the flexible driving-shaft and means for supporting the bearing upon the operator independently of the casing.

'2. In a cotton-harvester, the combination with a movable source of power, and a cotton-picker carried by the operator and comprising a tubular casing, a rotarv cottonpicking member andthe cotton-conveying belt operating Within andlongitudinally of said casing; of power-conveying means oper atlvely the movable source of connectin picking member and cotpower with the sai .tonconveying belt.

3. Irna cotton-harvester, the combination of a vehicle adapted to be moved from place to place, a motor for the-picking instrument carried thereby, a picking instrument carried by the o erator and having mechanical driving mec anism, a flexible power-shaft operativelyconnecting the motor with the said mechanical driving mechanism of'the picking instrument, a shaft-bearing for supporting the flexible power-shaft,means for supporting the shaft-bearing upon the o erator intermediate of the motor and pic ing instrument and separate from and independent of thelatter.

4. In a cottonharvester, the combination of a motor, a movable vehicle, a picking instrument carried by the operator and having a flexible drivin device, a shaft-bearing for supporting said flexible driving device, means for supporting the shaft bearing upon the operator' intermediate of the picking instrument and motor and separate from and independent of the picking instrument, and a' ton-picker and adapted cooperate the same by its rotation, means for journaling the endof the last-mentioned flexible shaft on said belt, and means on said belt for imparting the rotation of the first-mentioned flexible shaft to the other flexible shaft.

6. In a cotton-harvester, the combination gears.

of a plurality of cotton-pickers carried by the operators, belts having shaft-bearings and adapted to be worn by the operators and on which are journaled the ends of said flexible shafts, and means suitably connected with said ends for imparting the operating power to said cotton-pickers.

7. In a cotton-harvester, the combination with a vehicle, a suitable source of power carried thereby, a shaft driven by said source of power, and a plurality of flexible shafts to which rotation is imparted by said first-mentioned shaft; of a plurality of cotton-pickers carried by the operators, belts Worn by the o erators on which the ends of said flexible s afts are suitably journaled flexible shafts suitably journaled in and leading from said belts to said cotton pickers, and powertransmission means suitably inter osed between the respective ends of the st-mentioned flexible shaft and the second-mentioned shaft.

8. In a cotton-harvester, the combination with a vehicle,- a source of thereby, a sin le shaft driven y said source of power, a p urality of bevel gear-wheels mounted on said shaft, a plurality'of bevel gear-Wheels meshing with the same and suitably secured to flexible power conveying shafts; of a plurality of cotton-pickers carried by the operators, belts worn by said opera tors and provided with journal-bearings for the ends of said flexible shafts, bevel gearwheels on the ends of said flexible shafts, idle bevel-gears driven by the same, power-conveying flexible shafts leading from said cotton-pickers and suitably journaled in brackets on said belts, and bevel-gears on the ends ower carried of the same in mesh with said idle bevel 9. In a cotton-harvester, the combination of a motor, a movable vehic1e,a picking instrument carried by the operator, a-flexible powerconveyingdevice supported at one end on said vehicle having operative connection with said motor and supported at its other end on the operator, and a more flexible power-conveying device operatively connecting the-first-named power-conveying device with the picking instrument Witnesses R. R. COATS, C. S.- MAWR. 

